Saturday, 13 December, 2025 , 15:11 AFP — Several Syrian and American soldiers were wounded when shots were fired at a joint military delegation in Palmyra in central Syria on Saturday, state media said.

Friday, 12 December, 2025 , 17:55 AFP — Former Iraqi president Barham Salih is set to become the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, according to a document seen by AFP on Friday, taking over an agency tackling swingeing budget cuts.

Friday, 12 December, 2025 , 16:25 AFP — Iranian security forces on Friday "violently" arrested the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi along with at least eight other activists at a memorial ceremony for a lawyer who died earlier this month, her supporters said.

Friday, 12 December, 2025 , 12:00 AFP — Former Iraqi president Barham Salih will become the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a UN source told AFP on Friday, taking over an agency tackling swingeing budget cuts.

Thursday, 11 December, 2025 , 17:42 AFP — More than a dozen women and children of various nationalities were caught trying to escape a northeast Syria camp that holds suspected relatives of Islamic State group jihadists, the facility's director told AFP on Thursday.

Thursday, 11 December, 2025 , 12:14 AFP — Tehran's first rains of the autumn, rare so late in the year, have brought relief to inhabitants suffering from a nationwide drought that has caused water shortages and degraded air quality.

Thursday, 11 December, 2025 , 10:42 AFP — South Sudan said Thursday it had come to an agreement with warring parties over a key oilfield in Sudan's southern Kordofan, near the country's border, after the site was seized by paramilitaries.

Thursday, 11 December, 2025 , 07:46 AFP — Iraqi authorities temporarily closed Baghdad International Airport early Thursday due to a thick fog that has reduced visibility, the transport ministry said.

Wednesday, 10 December, 2025 , 01:02 AFP — Like a ghost in the night, Bilal Shorba, the artist they call the "Syrian Banksy", slipped through the rubble of Daraya to paint his murals, praying that Bashar al-Assad's gunners wouldn't spot him.

Tuesday, 9 December, 2025 , 23:01 AFP — A Cameroonian village chief won the UN refugee agency's prestigious Nansen Award on Wednesday for sheltering and integrating 36,000 people who fled unrest in the neighbouring Central African Republic.